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No. 638,982, Pat entel i Dec. I2, I899.

W. ULIPHANT.

, GAME.

(Application filed July 24, 1899.)

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GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,982, dated December 12, 189 Application filed July 24, 1899. Serial No. 7 ,06 (N0 11106813 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM OLIPHANT, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Glasgow, Scotland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new household game; and it consists in the matters hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of apparatus embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of said apparatus mounted upon a table in position for use.

In carrying out the invention I provide a sheet A, of oil-cloth or other suitable material, of a convenient length and breadth. At one end of this sheet there are printed, painted, or otherwise indicated nine squares or circles B, and at the head and foot of these squares or circles semicircular spaces B and B as shown. In one row of said circles the figures 3, 4:, and 8 are inscribed, in thenext row the figures 9, 5, and 1,, and in the third row the figures 2, 7, and 6, in the space at the head the plus sign and figure 10, and in the space at the foot the minus sign and figure 10. When circles are used, the spaces 0 between the circles have, respectively, the figures 25, 25,? 15, and 15, as shown. At the players end of the sheet a line or starting-point D is drawn and another line D nearer the circles, so that if a block does not pass this latter line the player gets it back. This sheet is laid on the top of a table E or other flat surface. One end of the cloth is attached to a spring-roller F,which is provided with two olasps F, whereby it may be clamped to the table or the legs thereof or to'any suitable support, and the other end of said sheet will be held when extended by buttons G, or a weight, or hook, or other appropriate device. When the game is finished, the sheet will be released from its fastening and automatically taken up on the roller. In order that it may fall beneath the flush of the table when so wound up, the rollersupports are hinged to the clasps, as at H, inside of a perpendicular from the roller, permitting them to drop beneath the table with the roller and rolled-up sheet thereon when of three bars dovetailed or otherwise fastened together, which can be removed at once when not required. One bar goes across the end of the table, at the head thereof, and the other two project about three feet along each side.

In playing the game each player gets four turned blocks L of difierent colors from each other, and the first starts off by striking one of the blocks with a cue M in a manner somewhat similar to' billiard-playing, trying to place the block in one of the circles or spaces. The opponent then plays, and if the first player has managed to get a block into a circle the opponent endeavors to displace it and get into a circle himself, and so on until all four of the blocks have been played. If a block is on the lines between the circles or squares, it does not count. It must be inside either a space or a circle. If a block gets into the minus 10, this sum is deducted from the score. One hundred is considered to be the game, although a larger or smaller number may constitute it.

Of course itis to be understood thata larger number of squares or circles and other numbers or names of towns instead of numbers may be employed, as also more blocks or counters, without departing from the essence of myinvention, and instead-of individualplayers there may be sides, in which case it is preferred that one on each play the whole of the blocks at a time-that is to say, play in pairs.

1. The combination of the table the sheet having grouped an d identified spaces near one end, the spring rewinding-roller for automatically taking up said sheet when released from its fastenings, and the supports for said roller hinged beneath the table inside of a perpendicular from the roller.

2. The combination of the sheet having grouped and identified spaces near one end, the spring rewinding-roller for automatically taking up said sheet when released from its In testimony whereof I aflix my signature fastenings, the clasps adapted to embrace and in presence of two witnesses. be clamped to the legs of a table, and the roller-supports hinged to said clasps so as to WILLIAM OLIPHANrl 5 fall away and beneath the table with the roller Witnesses:

and i'ewound sheet when the latter is released WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY,

from its fastenings. EDITH MARY EDMONDSTONE; 

